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St Albans District Council railfreight bill tops £1 million

5:05pm Monday 12th July 2010

THE cost of defeating the railfreight project for St Albans District Council has been well over £1 million so far, even before it coughs up its share of the developer's expenses.

St Albans District Council could face huge railfreight bill

11:31am Friday 9th July 2010

THE railfreight campaign may have ended in victory for local people, but the district council could still have to pay a massive costs bill to would-be developer Helioslough.

Railfreight company's pause for thought

Railfright protesters today.

2:28pm Thursday 8th July 2010

HELIOSLOUGH will not be rushed into any decisions after the defeat of its plans to build a huge goods yard outside Park Street, its boss Simon Hoare has told the Review.

Slim margin of railfreight victory

4:39pm Thursday 8th July 2010

THE railfreight project was defeated by a solitary paragraph in an obscure planning document governing an area many miles from St Albans.

St Albans MP: "Railfreight rejection the right decision"

1:07pm Thursday 8th July 2010

Delight at the defeat of the railfreight project is spreading across party political boundaries.

Joy unconfined after St Albans railfreight victory

12:44pm Thursday 8th July 2010

CAMPAIGNERS are overjoyed that their hard-fought battle to stop a huge goods yard on the former Handley Page airfield has ended in victory.

MP welcomes railfreight decision as 'victory for common sense'

12:41pm Thursday 8th July 2010

Hertsmere MP James Clappison has welcomed the Government’s decision to scrap a proposed railfreight terminal near Radlett.

Minister steps in to save St Albans Green Belt

11:44am Thursday 8th July 2010

CAMPAIGNERS have won their fight against the plan to build a massive railfreight depot on a former airfield between London Colney and Park Street.

Railfreight terminal refused

10:55am Thursday 8th July 2010

THE Secretary of State has refused plans for a controversial railfreight terminal between London Colney and Park Street.

Helioslough: "Council ignored the first inspector"

4:00pm Friday 18th December 2009

THE council was so desperate to refuse the railfreight project it did not properly consider Helioslough's planning application, the company's barrister has claimed.




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